Hi....
I have a bunch of Mac Mini's running Catalina over my local network. They run headless; one is a server, one I use as a windows virtual machine and a one computer to batch convert video files. That along with the family iMacs and lap tops.
I had been using Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to back up all the network macs onto external hard drive connected to the mac I use as a server. The problem is Catalina broke CCC's ability to make a bootable copy to a network drive. In the past i could just copy the network drive to a USB ssd and use that to recopy the macs boot drive. Thats broken now.
I do have each mac backup to a time machine drive I have running on the server, but I have always found CCC to be much more reliable and faster whenever I had to recover from a problem.
If I have to plug an external hard drive into each mac its never going to get done. Scheduled backups to a remote machine is the only way I have been able to keep reliable backups. Now the CCC backups are denied certain access and no longer work.
Its been a problem I have avoided for a while, but would appreciate any suggestions on how people are backing up their networked catalina macs. Any suggestions on a kind of work around to keep my backup system going?
I have a bunch of Mac Mini's running Catalina over my local network. They run headless; one is a server, one I use as a windows virtual machine and a one computer to batch convert video files. That along with the family iMacs and lap tops.
I had been using Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to back up all the network macs onto external hard drive connected to the mac I use as a server. The problem is Catalina broke CCC's ability to make a bootable copy to a network drive. In the past i could just copy the network drive to a USB ssd and use that to recopy the macs boot drive. Thats broken now.
I do have each mac backup to a time machine drive I have running on the server, but I have always found CCC to be much more reliable and faster whenever I had to recover from a problem.
If I have to plug an external hard drive into each mac its never going to get done. Scheduled backups to a remote machine is the only way I have been able to keep reliable backups. Now the CCC backups are denied certain access and no longer work.
Its been a problem I have avoided for a while, but would appreciate any suggestions on how people are backing up their networked catalina macs. Any suggestions on a kind of work around to keep my backup system going?
